Sarah maria fisher



(No Model.)

S. M. FISHER. SHUTTER WORKER.

No. 476,044. Patented May 31, 1892.

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UNITE STATES ATENT FFICE.

SARAH MARIA FISHER, OF SPENCER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HERSELF AND MARY LOUISA JENNINGS, OF SAME PLACE.

SHUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,044, dated May 31, 1892.

Application filed February 23, 1892. Serial 110.422. 146. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.- apart. In the openings of the frame a Be it known that I, SARAH MARIA FISHER, draw-rod is 1oc ated,said rod being capable of Spencer, in the county of Tioga and State of free end movement in the opening. The of New York, have invented a new and Iminner end of the rod, or that end adapted to 5 proved Blind-Opener, of which the following be located within the room, is preferably prois a full, clear, and exact description. vided with a loop-like handle 16, and this My invention relates to an improvement handle is vertically located, so that it may in blindopeners, and has for its object to enter the space between the lugs 13 and 14 provide a device of exceedingly simple, duupon the inner face-plate, and when the han- [0 rable, and economic construction and capadle is in this position the draw-rod 15 cannot 6o ble of being manipulated from the inside of be turned.

a room in such a manner as to open or to close At the lower portion of the blind A, upon the blinds; and a further object of the inits outer face and near the edge contiguous vention is to so construct the device that the to the side of the window-frame, a bracket 5 blinds may be held locked either in an open 17 is secured, which bracket comprises a plate or closed position. a, screwed or otherwise attached to the blinds The invention consists in the novel conand provided atits outer ends with outwardlystruction and combination of theseveral parts, extending cars a, each of the ears being pro as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and vided with a vertical slot (R. In the slots of 20 pointed out in the claim. the bracket a bar 18 is located, extending Reference is to be had to the accompanying from ear to ear, and a rod 19 is secured to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, bar 18, the attachment of the rod to the bar in which similar figures and letters of referbeing such that the rod extends at an angle ence indicate corresponding partsin both the less than a right angle with relation to the 25 Views. bar and extends upward in direction of the Figure 1 is a side elevation of one side of lower end of the draw-rod 15, with which end the window-frame and a portion of one blind of the drawrod the connecting-rod 19 is hinged to the frame and illustrating, also, the coupled. application of the device to the blind and the The coupling D consists in forming at the 30 frame; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section through lower end of the draw-rod 15 a fork 20 and '80 'the window-frame, taken practically on the producing at the upper end of the connectline 2 2 of Fig. 1. ing-rod 19 a similar fork 21, one fork being In carrying out the invention the blind A horizontally located and the other vertically is hung to the window-frame B by means of placed, and the forks are pivotally connected 5 any suitable form of hinges O. In the sides through the medium of a block 22, which of the window-frame B diagonal openings 10 block is pivoted in one of the forks and the are produced, the openings extending from other fork is attached directly to the block, theinner or front side of the frame downward the fork attached to the block being ordinarily through its outer side, as best shown in Fig. that attached to the draw-rod 15.

4o 2. A wear plate or washer 11 surrounds the The hinges C employed are preferably of inner end of the opening, said plates being that type which when the blinds are closed or attached to the inner face of the windowopened will lock said blindsin such chosen poframe, and a like plate 12 is preferably se sition,and before a blind can be carried either cured to the outer face of the frame surroundfrom a closed to an open position, or vice versa,

5 ing the lower portion of the opening. The it is necessary that the blind should be slightly 5 inner plate or washer 11 is provided with two lifted. Therefore in the manipulation of the lugs 13 and 14, attached to or constituting an device when the blind is closed, for inintegral portion of the plate, as shown in dotstance, and it is desired to open it--the hanted lines, Fig. 1, the said lugs being arranged dle 16 of the draw-rod is grasped by the op- 50 at angles to each other and at some distance orator and drawn inward-that is, in the di- 10o rection of the room-out of engagement with the lugs 13 and 14:. By t-hus drawing upon the rod 15 the connecting-rod 19 is raised to such an extent that its bar 18, connected with the bracket, will also be elevated, and therefore the blind will be lifted a sufficient distance upward to permit the hinges to operate. After the draw-rod has been carried upward in the direction of the room the blind is opened by turning the handle 16, and as through the medium of the handle the draw rod 15 is revolved a twisting action is brought to bear upon the connecting-rod 19, which motion is communicated directly to the blind and the blind is swung upon its hingesin the direction in which the draw-rod 15 is revolved. After the blind has reached its full open po sition the handle of the draw-rod will be in its normal or vertical position and the handle of the rod upon being released will drop again between the lugs 13 and 14, and to permit this dropping action by the draw-rod a recess 23 is preferably formed in the blind above the bracket and opposite the coupling D. The weight of the rods 15 19 causes rod 15 to slide downward when released, and thus bring its handle into the recess formed by the two lugs.

It will be observed that this fastener is of exceedingly simple, durable, and economic construction and that it is capable of being expeditiously and conveniently manipulated from Within a room, thus obviating the necessity of the operator being exposed to the air in opening or closing the blinds of awindow. It will be understood that one of the devices is employed in connection with each blind of a window-frame.

It is evidentthat the plate 11 may be turned in such manner that it will serve to lock the blinds when in a partially-opened position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with the frame and shut.- ter, of the sliding and rotating rod 15, extending from the inner side of the frame downwardly and outwardly therethrough and pro vided at its inner end with a fixed handle, the inner plate 11, having lugs between which the handle passes, the outer plate 12, the rod 19, having a universal connection with rod 15, the vertically slotted bracket 17, and the cross-piece 18 on the lower end of rod 19 and mounted at its ends in said slots, substantially as set forth.

SARAH MARIA FISHER.

Vitnesses:

M. B. FERRIS, I. P. FISHER. 

